Amir Johnson's Primal Pre-Season Training

When legendary basketball coach John Wooden, renown for his maxims, or "Woodenisms," that often praised humility and hard work both on and off the court, uttered, "It isn't what you do, but how you do it," even he couldn't have imagined the next-level training regimen employed by Toronto Raptor Amir Johnson.

Johnson, spending some time in Thailand, decided to go primal in the countdown to next month's NBA season start. Like, really primal:

While Thailand's basketball-playing elephants have been well-documented, it seems that their love of the game and pure brute strength wasn't enough to quench Johnson's need for competition, so the famously athletic center/forward upped the ante one more time, establishing a little dominance with one of Thailand's fastest and most powerful natives:

Perhaps this is better summed up by former NBA coach Bobby Knight: "Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win." No matter how you look at it, if he's this much of an animal off the hardwood, this should be a hell of a season.